Editing Carlock, Illinois (section)

===The town moves down hill===
By March 1887 it was clear that a railroad would pass nearby, and local people were denying rumors that their town would be picked up bodily and carried to the railroad.<ref>''Pantagraph'' (Bloomington, Illinois), January 21, 1887, p.5.</ref> The people at Oak Grove sent a delegation to Bloomington to explain to the superintendent of the [[Lake Erie and Western Railroad]] the reasons for putting a station at Oak Grove; his reply was not encouraging.<ref>''Pantagraph'' (Bloomington, Illinois) March 12, 1887, p.4.</ref> Then local farmer John Franklin Carlock, who also had a contract to supply the railroad with oak ties, laid out a new town about a mile and a half away. In November 1879 it was announced that the town movers had arrived in Oak Grove. Buildings were placed on skids and hauled down the hill to the site of Carlock. By February 1888 residents were moving into their newly re-located homes.<ref>Sublett, ''Commentary'', p.59</ref> In June 1888 the Oak Grove correspondent of ''The Pantagraph'' reported that "nothing is left of our town but pieces".<ref>June 13, 1888</ref> Further west along the same new railroad, other towns were in motion: buildings from Farnisville moved to [[Congerville, Illinois|Congerville]], and Chaffers Corners went to the new town of [[Deer Creek, Illinois|Deer Creek]].<ref>Walters, William D. Jr. "Transferred Structures and Town Origins," ''P.A.S.T. (Pioneer America Society Transactions)'' (1991) 14, 11 - 17, p.14.</ref>